A "worker" includes anyone who carries out work for a business, including contractors, sub-contractors, outworkers, apprentices, trainees, a student gaining work experience or a volunteer.
The slippers were made using outworkers who collected materials from the factory, assembled footwear in workshops at home and returned the finished product for payment.
Direct funding contracts would allow for more flexibility in the variety of services, maybe with outworkers connected to centre based services, rather than privately employed nannies.